View full sizeThese Monkey socks look great as is. They don't need to become phosphorescent, oh Men of Science!Stephanie Yao Long/The Oregonian

You know what makes a bad day good or a good day better? Photos of chickens wearing sweaters. Here's a whole bunch. Marvel at the patterning and ask yourself if it's cute or freaky to have a chicken wearing a sweater made out of Fun Fur. I can't quite decide, so I'm going with cute.

Continuing our inadvertent theme of Animals And Yarn, we have a video of a lion cub playing with a huge ball of yarn. It's adorable, but I'm enough of a fiber freak to wonder what kind of yarn that is, and is letting a cat maul it really the best use of it? And I'm enough of an animal person to worry that the cat will strangle himself. But still! Look at the giant paws! And his doggie pal!

The fine folks at Paradise Fibers recently mentioned New Stitch A Day on their Facebook page. Am I the last person on the fiber planet to hear about this utterly nifty knitting and crochet site that, as its name indicates, offers a new stitch a day, free? They've got some terrific video knitting/crocheting tutorials -- definitely worth your time. Look and learn!